Hypnosis Flashcards
What is hypnosis
An altered state of consciousness in which people become deeply relaxed and highly suggestivble to changes in behavior
What type of disorders did Freud belive hypnosis could help
Somatoform disorders
How does hypnosis engage the subconscious
Hypnosis accesses the subconscious by relaxing the conscious mind.
Disassociation
Dissociation is a mental disconnect from thoughts, feelings, or surroundings, often as a coping mechanism.
What does disassociation state about consciousness
Consciousness is divided into 2 parts
One part of consciousness is unaware of what the other is doing
Social influence theory
A combination of theories that tries to explain hypnosis
Roles theory
People play a role like the behavior of a hypnotized perons
What is the theory that hypnotic suggestions alter expectations (placebos)
Response expectancy thoery
What types of pain does hypnosis help with
Birth, chemotherapy, dental
What type of treatment therapy does hypnosis help with
Headaches, smoking, weight, control, nail biting
What is bio feedback
Process of learning to control bodily functions/states with the help of machines monitoring the states to be controlled
Meditaion
The focusing of attention to clear ones mind and produce relaxation
Physical affects of mediation
Lowers blood pressure, heart rate, respiration
What is a pyscological affect of medication
Decreases anxiety
Mental process that goes on innwhich the individual is unaware
Nonconsious
Increases pluse and breathing, high frequency, considates memory
REM sleep
Very deep sleep- delta waves, voluntary muscle activity is paralyzed
Stage 4
In hypnosis, consciousness is divided into 2 parts each aware
Disassociation theory
Slow brain activity associated with deep sleep
Delta waves
Information not in the conscious like memories and stored knowlage
Preconsious
A reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories of which we unaware but which influences our behavior
Unconscious
Stage 2
a period of lighter but deeper sleep than stage 1, is characterized by slowed heart rate, breathing, and body temperature,
Stage 3 sleep
NREM sleep, deep sleep but non rem, moderate sleep
Stage 4
characterized by slow, high-amplitude brain waves (delta waves), making it the deepest stage of sleep where it’s difficult to wake someone
